I've been working in credit counselling, and
now in consumer proposals and personal bankruptcies for almost ten years, and have met with 5,000 or more... Read more
Not exact matches
While most of his
proposals — «to abandon the gold standard, let international exchange rates float, use federal surpluses and deficits as macroeconomic policy tools that could counter cyclical trends, and establish bureaus of economic statistics (including a
consumer price index)
in order to facilitate this effort» — are
now conventional practice, his critique of fractional - reserve banking still «remains outside the bounds of conventional wisdom» although a recent paper by the IMF reinvigorated his
proposals.
Over half of all insolvencies
in Ontario are
now consumer proposals.
This higher debt limit (it was increased from $ 75,000
in 2009) is one of the primary reasons why more than 50 % of all insolvencies
in Ontario are
now consumer proposals.
Or stay
in the house, go through a
consumer proposal, pay off $ 50,000 to his creditors
now and pay the rest off over time.»
→
In your
consumer proposal, you agree to pay $ 1 for every $ 10 owed, so your mortgage lender ends up getting approximately $ 25,000 from you, meaning the lender
now has a loss of $ 225,000.
What happens if you were employed when you signed up for
consumer proposal, and
now unemployed and have no money coming
in?
Legislative solutions, governed by federal law, typically come
in the form of
consumer proposals, which are
now more commonly used than bankruptcy filings.
As we can see
in the chart below,
proposals have become significantly more popular since that time and by 2015, almost half of all insolvency filings
in Canada are
now consumer proposals, and this number is 55 %
in Ontario.
Now you were talking about offering this settlement and how that all works, I'd like to get into a bit of that but we're going to take a quick break first, and we're going to come back and talk more about
consumer proposals with Ted Michalos here on Debt Free
in 30.
Now having said that, if you do actually have an appreciable amount of equity
in your property then we're going to suggest that we consider filing a
consumer proposal; making an offer to the creditors to pay back part of what you owe but protecting the property as part of the deal.
Billy is
now the Licensed Insolvency Trustee and
Consumer Proposal Administrator
in charge of our Hamilton and Burlington offices.
In Ontario, the rate of Consumer Proposal now exceeds that of Bankruptcy, at 55 % of insolvencies addressed in 201
In Ontario, the rate of
Consumer Proposal now exceeds that of Bankruptcy, at 55 % of insolvencies addressed
in 201
in 2015.
So they did
consumer proposals with us, the
proposals were accepted and I think they're just a both just a few months
in now to making payments, full legal protection, no need to file for bankruptcy.
Ted:
Now what people have to keep
in mind is, a
Consumer Proposal is not a solution for the guy that doesn't have any trouble paying his debts.
Ted: And the sad fact is that one out of every nine Canadians at some point
in their life is going to file bankruptcy or
Consumer Proposal now.